Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema by Lcia N... - 9781474452991

Edinburgh University Press

Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian CinemaAuthor(s): Lcia Nagib, Luciana Corra de Arajo, Tiago de Luca\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474452991, 978-1474452991\nSynopsis\nFrom its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesthetic blend. Theatre, dance, music, circus, radio, television and the plastic arts left a distinctive mark on Brazilian cinemas poetics and politics, as can be observed in a host of fascinating phenomena analysed in this book, including: the film prologues that connected the screen to the stage in the 1920s; the chanchada musical comedies, inflected by vaudeville theatre and the radio; the manguebeat and rido movie movements that blurred the boundaries between music and film; and contemporary multimedia installations and other experiments. By adopting intermediality as a h.